FUNDING BODIES: FIVE DECADES OF DANCE MAKING AT THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS by Sarah Wilbur. 2021. Middletown: CT: Wesleyan University Press. 296 pp., 18 photos. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 9780819580528. $95.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780819580511.

Abstract

narratives, and social and literal death-the structural violence of Whiteness is often apparent and felt. Yet, such oppressive conditions are rarely investigated as they manifest and transmute in space through the lens of Euro-American theater dance. This is why Stanger's book is vital-it unsettles the ways that many people think, write, teach, and even create Euro-American theater dance. It unsettles the very understandings on which the Euro-American world exists, as humans know it, move through it, dance within it and attempt to move beyond it.